The state Supreme Court has denied Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s request to quash the appointment of the special prosecutor investigating allegations that she leaked grand jury information to a newspaper.…

SCRANTON — A Scranton man was charged this afternoon with killing a Scranton woman in her apartment late last year. Joseph James Thornton, 26, faces criminal homicide charges for the death of Stephanie Tyminski. Ms. Tyminski, 29, was found slain Dec. 10 i…

Tricia Hojnowski, daughter of Tom and Tracy Hojnowski of Alba, has been selected as a finalist for Pennsylvania's 35th Annual Homecoming Queen Selection to be held April 19 at the Lancaster Host Resort and Conference Center, according to a news release from the "America's Homecoming…

Police are not releasing any names in the incident that ended with two people attempting to harm themselves after a verbal fight became physical in Brockport Monday night. Rumors of a shooting were un…

“I said don’t come in here!” I yelled at my 3-year-old son Zack, who stopped cold in the doorway, scrunching his face, his lower lip sticking out so far that he could have caught a touchdown pass in it.…

In an effort to help keep you informed about each candidate and their political stance on various issues, we've asked all six the same 10 questions. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story on our…

Gregory A. Hess, 47, of Seven Valleys, is set for trial May 18. On Tuesday, his attorneys agreed to withdraw their allegations against Senior Deputy Prosecutor David Sunday and are no longer asking that he be removed from the case.…

Ran Zurung sat at the kitchen table at Catholic Social Services last week, with sheets of English vocabulary words in front of him and fellow Nepali-Bhutanese refugees sitting beside him.Click to Continue »…

POTTSVILLE (AP) — Family members and supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal (moo-MEE'-ah AH'-boo jah-MAHL') say the former death row inmate was rushed to a Pennsylvania hospital to be treated for complications from diabetes.…

Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Williams has filed a formal application with federal regulators to construct nearly 200 miles of a new interstate natural gas pipeline in Pennsylvania. The Atlantic Sunrise project is designed to carry Marcellus Shale gas from northeastern Pennsylvania to markets along the eastern seaboard,…

This week's MP3 Monday comes to you from Cold Weather, singer-songwriter Mark Ramsey's "dark folk" project. "When Waking" is a quiet, pulsating meditation from the band's debut album of the same name.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this…

The festival concluded Sunday night with a talk by George Takei at the Byham Theater. And co-organizer Paul Organisak, of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, says the four-day program of presentations on scholarly and popular topics went "extremely well." The line-up of about two dozen ...…

Another victim's voice is heard about the death penalty moratorium that Gov. Tom Wolf put in place in February. This one from a murder victim's daughter supports abolishing the death penalty in future cases but not in cases where a death sentence has already been…

HARRISBURG –
Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today announced criminal charges have been
filed against four individuals accused of committing Medicaid fraud.The charges
were the result of investigations by the Office of Attorney General’s Medicaid
F…

HARRISBURG –
Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today announced charges against a Huntingdon
County woman for allegedly misrepresenting herself as an attorney licensed to
practice law in the Commonwealth. Following a
referral from the Huntingdon Cou…

HARRISBURG – Attorney
General Kathleen G. Kane today announced the arrest of three men charged with possessing
child pornography and sharing it on the Internet. The arrests were made after
separate online investigations by the Attorney General’s Chil…

HARRISBURG –
Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane and the Pennsylvania State Police today
announced criminal charges have been filed in Lawrence County against a father
and son accused of illegally operating numerous video poker and video slot
machines.…

HARRISBURG -- Attorney
General Kathleen G. Kane today announced the arrest of a North Huntingdon woman
for dealing heroin. Agents charged the
defendant, Lisa Rodnicki, 37, 732 8th St., Apt. 1, Irwin, Westmoreland County, with
one count each of deliv…